By WTC With just four more stages remaining on Sunday's final day of Rally Mexico, defending world champion Sebastien Loeb leads the event by more than one minute.Loeb's lead became a good deal more secure on SS13 today after a turbo problem cost his closest rival, Jari-Matti Latvala, around 55 seconds. Latvala's Ford Focus had little turbo-boost for most of the stage because of a broken boost-pipe. As a result he dropped back behind Chris Atkinson into third place overall.Latvala and his co-driver Miikka Anttila tried to fix the pipe using aluminium tape before the start of SS14, but the problem persisted and over the 23km test they dropped another 45 seconds to Atkinson.Atkinson is now on course for the best result of his WRC career. The 28-year-old Australian joined Subaru in 2005 and up to now his best results have been the third places he recorded on Rally Japan in 2005 and this year's Rallye Monte Carlo.Henning Solberg is fourth for the Munchi's Ford team and after reporting brake problems throughout the day the Norwegian said he was relieved to get back to service. Solberg will start day three just 15 seconds ahead of fellow Ford Focus driver Mikko Hirvonen, which raised the question of how hard he would fight to defend the position. Hirvonen rounded off the top five but was frustrated at having lost so much time with two punctures on SS12. After a disappointing rally so far, Hirvonen pledged that he would pull out all the stops on Sunday's remaining tests. Matthew Wilson holds sixth place for the Stobart Ford team after a lucky escape on SS13 when a spectator threw a rock at his car. The rock punched into the middle of his car's windscreen, which absorbed the impact but crazed the glass around the strike, reducing visibility for the remaining tests.Federico Villagra is seventh in the second Munchi's Ford and the final WRC entry in the top 10. Villagra had a difficult day because of power-steering problems.
Loeb comfortably in front at end of day two